4 political family Christmas card photos.
3 are posed with guns.
The lower right is Gov #Walz posing with his kids, their dog and cat.
One of these things is not like the other.
#uspol
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Aug 16
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I love how Business Insider's best idea is to tell people to abandon all hope and run away as the way to avoid the effects of climate change. Brilliant that.
now. where. do. people. go?
If you see me happily posting pics of my dogs and cat or making endless corny dad jokes it’s because I am utterly terrified what’s going to happen in November and I don’t really have anything useful to say that everyone else can do so much better.
Now if I appear to be carefree
It's only to camouflage my sadness
In order to shield my pride, I try
To cover this hurt with a show of gladness
Watching the US debate and it’s fucking terrifying.
We really are (in both UK and US) creating the perfect conditions for fascism or something very much like it.
But can we be fucking clear. This is not the fault of the people refusing to vote for increasingly shitty Labour/Democrat candidates.
This is the fault of Labour/The Democrats for being shitty and embracing the exact narratives and economic positions that empower the right.
See how this article about replacing #Biden totally ignores Kamala Harris and boosts Gavin Newsom? Even though only Kamala Harris can use the funds Biden’s campaign has raised, if it comes to that.
I suspect that this is what it’s all about. Newsom has a track record of supporting very neoliberal, anti-labor, poverty-punishing policies, something Biden does not really do and presumably Kamala Harris wouldn’t do.
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If you are worried about [GESTURES AT EVERYTHING] then I have good news for you: the #PoorPeoplesCampaign has just kicked off its 2024 #GOTV campaign. We are going to get 15 million poor and low-wealth Americans - infrequent or first-time voters - to the polls.
Poor and low-wealth people make up 30% of the electorate but they don’t vote or they vote infrequently. If we can change that we can radically change election outcomes and American politics.
https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/
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Refreshing blast of sanity on Harris’ proposal for anti-price-gouging action: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-price-gouging-vs
The people howling that this is “Communism” or “A policy that has never worked” can be safely ignored.
After unprecedented protests swept #Cuba, a huge wave of people fled. A journalist shares his saga of being smuggled to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The cover story to our magazine, presented in partnership with NAHJ's palabra.
https://www.texasobserver.org/cuba-journalism-border-immigration-asylum-texas/
#immigration #politics #USpol #border #news #Mexico #HumanRights #refugees
The perfect candidate to step in for Biden will be the one who is confident looking out over the massive crowd gathered for his or her ascension and saying:
“And to my Republican friends… [restrained catcalls & boos] …to my Republican friends, my party and I welcome the fight ahead! And I urge you, please, please—do not do what we have done; stick with Trump!”
Vance ~2016:
Trump is a demagogue—the “fruit of the party’s collective neglect” and might even be America’s Hitler
Vance 2024:
I’ll join him
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Stop calling the Orange Thing’s performance BS a “news conference”. What he does is not “news”. There is nothing new in a pathological liar and bullshit artist. It is a lies conference. Nothing but a conference of lies AND NO REAL-TIME FACT-CHECKING.
#Harris2024 #HarrisWalz2024 #usa #uspol #KamalaHarris #vote #voteblue
“describing Donald #Trump as an absolute existential #threat to #democracy is 100% accurate. His ability to rip away our allegiances that we formed, & the diplomats know this, that are so critical, not just to Europe, but for the entire planet.”
- #TimWalz Boston fundraiser where he raised more than $1.2M yesterday.
#ForeignPolicy #NATO #NationalSecurity #Security #geopolitics #USpol #HarrisWalz2024
https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/08/15/walz-boston-campaign-fundraiser-harris
If you haven't already, or perhaps if you want to again, @heidilifeldman has a #MastodonForHarris #actblue campaign to raise funds for VP Harris's presidential campaign to defeat #Trump.
I think the goal was $1,000 (lol) but we're going to the moon.
🚀 🚀 🚀
Donate whatever you can, here: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris
#uspol #politics #uspolitics #kamala #election #election2024
Two Reminders as the Republican National Convention Begins:
1. No Republican since Reagan has delivered strong job growth, while every Democrat has.
2. Unemployment and inflation are lower today under Biden than when Reagan ran 1984 Morning in America reelection ad.
Economy when Reagan-Bush ran #MorningInAmerica reelection ad:
• Unemployment 7.3%; Inflation 4.3%
Economy today under the Biden-Harris #GreatAmericanComeback:
• Unemployment 4.1%; Inflation 3.0%
OMG.
Get it right, Dems.
Our leader has spoken.
He has taken the first courageous, high-risk step.
But he has taken the correct one.
God bless him, and God bless America.
Wow that is a surprise. I didn’t think he’d drop out, but he did.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/biden-stepping-aside-as-democratic-presidential-candidate-1.7270682
For the 1st time I'm seeing follow requests from newly-created, shady-looking accounts. 1 was pre-blocked by my instance, the other was clearly anti-Harris.
I'm not American & rarely post about #USPol, so this is a waste of everyone's time. For the avoidance of doubt, if I had a vote it would never be for the #GOP
Friendly advice: go outside, reconnect with #nature, do something constructive to help people or planet, read a book
Rally around #KamalaHarris
#Biden moments away from addressing the nation on his decision to stand down from the 2024 #election.
If you think he has earned a beer for ~50 years of public service, donate $5 to help elect VP #Harris (and show #Mastodon is worth looking at)!
Or, you know, a six-pack for $30. 😇
@heidilifeldman has started this #MastodonForHarris ActBlue fundraiser and it is blowing past expectations, approaching $200,000 as we speak!
i made a thing
One of my favorite Trump statements ever - btw this guy was today in all seriousness interviewed by #Musk about educational policy...
#trump #nato #musk #education #uspol
I've written a longish take on the last couple of days, including about how what looked like (and initially was) Democratic panic over Biden morphed somewhere along the way into a rope-a-dope strategy against the GOP, and whether Harris can win (spoiler: yup):
https://whatever.scalzi.com/2024/07/22/biden-harris-trump-and-2024/